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I don't want to read a story of Scrooge dying. Comics have to be timeless. It's why no one ever gets older. That??s true for Duckburg, as well as The Peanuts, The Simpsons and others. But for the Disney comics it's even more important, because very different people write and draws the stories. So there can't be a coordinated timeline for the life of any character.
(Although I like to think that all Duck stories take place in the 50s and 60s. That sometimes makes it hard to read new Italian stories with mobile phones and internet connections.)

Quote from user: Charlie BrownI don't want to read a story of Scrooge dying. Comics have to be timeless. It's why no one ever gets older. That??s true for Duckburg, as well as The Peanuts, The Simpsons and others. But for the Disney comics it's even more important, because very different people write and draws the stories. So there can't be a coordinated timeline for the life of any character.

(Although I like to think that all Duck stories take place in the 50s and 60s. That sometimes makes it hard to read new Italian stories with mobile phones and internet connections.)
A bit off-topic, but that would also make it difficult to watch DuckTales, which is very much set in the late 80's, in which Huey, Dewey and Louie are gamers who like to spend their time either at the video arcade or on their home system playing "Ducks of the Galaxy", not to mention the idea of GizmoDuck, which was a takeoff on RoboCop. I like to think of DuckTales as an alternate universe version of Duckburg (Duckburg 2?).

Am I the only one who thinks that Scrooge dying wouldn't be the first thing to change the status quo? I've never even imagined an ending for Scrooge, but in my mind the first thing to happen in the 'future' would be Huey, Dewey and Louie becoming teenagers. I think (hope?) that Scrooge has several years left, even if time would move in the Disney Duckverse. Lots of things will change before Uncle Scrooge dies. No, wait. Skip that last sentence. These characters shouldn't die. Just fade away, like the old soldiers.

Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderThese characters shouldn't die. Just fade away, like the old soldiers.
They should neither fade away.
Scrooge (and Donald) are the two most interesting characters in Duckburg. Without them there isn't much to care about.

Quote from user: Review Or DieGod, I really need to finish Don Rosa in Review.
Seconded! :D

In Don Rosa's commentory on "A Little Something Special", he said he thought Scrooge's final fate would be to return to Goldie someday, which he also hinted at in-story with "The quest for Kalevala". Combine that with the comment that instead of dying, Scrooge would just "disappear", I think a good guess as to what would became of him is that when he felt it was time, he left a note for his nephews telling them all his money and businesses were theirs now, thanks for all their adventures together etc etc. and he was now going on his final adventure, and they were not to try and find him. He returns to Dawson to finally marry Goldie, and lives the rest of his years peacefully with her, far away from any media attention or to the knowledge of his relatives, which is how he would "disappear". Donald and his nephews would probably be guessing where he went, but they'd keep it a secret. Years later, they receive a letter telling them their uncle passed away, so they travel to the Yukon to visit his grave. Per the drawing.
Well, it could have gone like that, couldn't it?

Quote from user: NectariaQuote from user: KeikoIn Don Rosa's commentory on "A Little Something Special", he said he thought Scrooge's final fate would be to return to Goldie someday, which he also hinted at in-story with "The quest for Kalevala". Combine that with the comment that instead of dying, Scrooge would just "disappear", I think a good guess as to what would became of him is that when he felt it was time, he left a note for his nephews telling them all his money and businesses were theirs now, thanks for all their adventures together etc etc. and he was now going on his final adventure, and they were not to try and find him. He returns to Dawson to finally marry Goldie, and lives the rest of his years peacefully with her, far away from any media attention or to the knowledge of his relatives, which is how he would "disappear". Donald and his nephews would probably be guessing where he went, but they'd keep it a secret. Years later, they receive a letter telling them their uncle passed away, so they travel to the Yukon to visit his grave. Per the drawing.

Well, it could have gone like that, couldn't it?
It's interesting and sad to hear from Don Rosa that Scrooge's final fate would be to return to Goldie and trying to marry with her. Too bad that he didn't marry Goldie but it would be great if there was a story where Scrooge married her. I don't think Don will make a story about Scrooge's death because it would upset many readers when they realized that he died in this story.
There's too much of a melancholy vibe in most of Rosa's work for my liking.

Quote from user: MustangRockstarFor too many years I've put off attending a comic con that Don Rosa attends. I play to change that in September by going to the Baltimore Comic Con.

Has anyone ever been? I know Rosa has attended for several years. Does he draw a decent crowd?
I have been to the Baltimore Comic Con, a number of years ago now (possibly 2006, when the L&T Companion came out). Few people came to Rosa's table. He drew one drawing per time you made it to the head of the line; thus I was able to get three drawings, one for myself and two for friends, by standing in the short line three times. This was before his eyesight-related medical misadventures. He may not be able to draw for fans nowadays. But he is always most gracious in his interactions with sincere fans.

Once, more years ago, on the Disney Comics Mail List, Rosa said he was going to some country he'd never been to before for a comic con (Portugal?). He wrote to ask people what to expect, in terms of crowds. Would it be like the USA, where half a dozen people would drop by his table in an hour? Or like Finland, where a huge mob of excited fans awaited his plane at the airport? Where on that USA-to-Finland scale would Portugal lie? (I paraphrase from memory, but that was the general gist.)

Here's hoping that the Fantagraphics Complete Works, together with the heightened visibility of Disney comics thanks to IDW's marketing, will get Rosa a wee bit more attention in his native land.

By the way, I took Amtrak to Baltimore, and that worked very well.